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UNINA9910457694103321 |
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The poetics of American song lyrics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Charlotte Pence |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2012 |
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9786613341396 |
1-283-34139-5 |
1-61703-157-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 p.) |
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Collana |
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American made music series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Songs - History and criticism |
Poetics - History |
Poetry - Authorship |
Lyric poetry - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part One. Poetic History and Techniques within Poems and Songs; The Day Johnny Cash Died; Reduced to Rhyme: On Contemporary Doggerel; The Sonnet Within the Song: Country Lyrics and the Shakespearean Sonnet Structure; Rap Poetry 101; It Don't Mean a Thing: The Blues Mask of Modernism; Gangsta Rap's Heroic Substrata: A Survey of the Evidence; At the Crossroads: The Intersection of Poetry and the Blues; Country Music Lyrics: Is There Poetry in Those Twangy Rhymes?; Similarities and Differences between Song Lyrics and Poetry; Words and Music: Three Stories |
Part Two. Analysis of Twentieth-Century SongwritersThe Triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the Creative Spirit; The Joe Blow Version; A Nobel for Dylan?; Lyric Impression, Muscle Memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts; Don Khan and Truck-Driving Wives: Dylan's Fluctuating Lyrics; Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the Oral and Literary Traditions; The Soup That Could Change the World; Laughing in Tune: R.E.M. and the Post-Confessional Lyric; Sweetness Follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats, and the Consolations of Time; Sweeping Up the |
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Jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The Stranger Song" |
Facing the Music: The Poetics of Bruce SpringsteenComing into Your Town: Okkervil River's "Black"; Still Holding at the Seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the Contemporary Poetic Sequence; Not to Oppose Evil: Johnny Cash's Bad Luck Wind; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and |
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UNINA9910162842103321 |
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Conozco Las Formas / I Know Shapes |
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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (24 p.) |
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Lo que conozco / What I Know |
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Geometry in nature |
Visual training |
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Discovering the obvious and hidden shapes in the world around us is a great way to strengthen geometric concepts. This motivating volume points out shapes in common and interesting objects. Readers will be |
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inspired by accessible text and colorful photographs to apply their understanding of shapes' attributes to their own surroundings, reinforcing fundamental mathematic ideas. |
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